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Why does SD look *that* bad on Kscape?

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dla26

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After I completely overhauled my HT, there were a few things in SD I wanted to watch on Kaleidescape, and as expected, it looked *much* worse than the 4K HDR stuff. I just thought to myself that that's how far things have come and didn't give it much extra thought. A couple days ago I put a physical DVD into my Blu-ray player, fully expecting it to look just as bad, but... it didn't. It actually looked fine. Certainly not 4K HDR or even Blu-ray level, but not the barely unwatchable garbage that SD content on Kaleidescape is. Why does SD content look that atrocious on Kscape? Since noticing this issue, I even tried A-B testing a DVD I owned alongside the SD version of something on Kaleidescape, and the DVD was far superior. What gives - and is there a way to fix it?

In case it matters, I have a Lumagen video processor and a JVC RS-4500K projector. The Blu-ray player I was comparing it with is an Oppo 203.
 
Do you know what's upscaling the DVD and SD content in your system? Is your Oppo doing the scaling and is the Kaleidescape doing the scaling? Do you have the same settings for the Oppo and K inputs on the Lumagen?
 
That is a great question and one I should know the answer to, but I'd have to check with the person who set up and calibrated it. Both the Oppo and K go through the Lumagen, and I'm pretty sure he'd set it up for the Lumagen to do the scaling...
 
The other half of that being which K device is doing the playback? Some of the later premiere components had fairly decent upscaling hardware, which I haven't seen listed as being in any of the Stratos (for somewhat understandable reasons.)
 
dla26 said:
It says "Allow display mode changes (use external scaler)"
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This should mean the Strato isn't doing the upscaling and either the Lumagen or your PJ is. Do you know if your Oppo is upscaling? Without any menu on screen, hit OK on your Lumagen and it'll show you the input resolution to the scaler. Maybe unplug the Oppo from Lumagen and plug the Strato into that HDMI port and see if the scaling settings are comparable..
 
Depending on the firmware version, the Lumagen isn´t that great at upscaling. So i would give it a try to let the Strato do the upscaling.
 
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